Spaceship Earth
The term for Earth revolving around the sun.
What is Earth's orbit/orbitting?
What is Igneous Rock?
Sections of the Earth's crust that can move with respect to each other.
What are Tectonic Plates?
The nation park in southern Utah home to Thor's Hammer.
What is Bryce Canyon National Park?
Imaginary lines that measure locations on Earth north or south from the equator.
What is (lines of) Latitude?
The imaginary line that divides the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
David Bowie's "Changes" could be about this kind of rock.
What is metamorphic (which means "having to do with change") rock?
The four categories of tectonic interaction.
What are separate, slide, collide, and subduct?
The process by which large rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
Longitude is measured from the Prime Meridian which pass through this location in England.
What is Greenwich, London, England?
Earth's seasons are primarily caused by this.
Earth's tilt with respect to its orbit.
Otis Reddings "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" could be about this kind of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
Hot melted rock (still within the Earth).
What is Magma?
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
Earth's outermost layer.
What is the crust?
Bastille's "Pompei" references a volcano, which ejects this when it erupts.
What is lava?
The approximate number of active volcanoes on Earth.
What is 1900?
Land almost completely surrounded by water but still connected to land on one side.
What is a peninsula?
Earth's most central layer.
What is the Inner Core?
Someone following the directions in R.E.M.'s "Stand":"Stand in the place where you live
Now face north
Think about direction"might rely on this feature of Earth.
What is Earth's magnetic field?
The longest mountain range in the world.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
An underground chamber formed by dissolving rock.
What is a cave?